Many doctors panic when faced with people with conditions outside their experience. That can be prejudice, but almost no doctors have any training that covers trans treatment, so its quite reasonable to fear doing the wrong thing, or even just saying the wrong thing, and causing harm, getting sued, and perhaps losing their license. One might think that they were scientists who should easily use their other knowledge to figure out the proper course, and refer to appropriate specialists, but that’s not really how most doctors are.

Not making excuses, but a more professional attitude from doctors, and inclusion in training and updating of skills, and in professional journals, is something we constantly try to press for. Other want all T people shunted to separate centres. That would not be acceptable.

This is bizarre.
It is a pretty well-known fact that men can also contract breast cancer – although the mamary glands remain inactive due to the male hormonal state, they can still contract it.

In men, breast cancer is very rare. There are about 300 men diagnosed each year in the UK, compared with around 45,700 cases of breast cancer in women. That’s about one man for every 150 women diagnosed.

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